Justin Buzzard proved it is never too late to make a comeback, taking the field to play defense for San Jose City College at 47 years old.<\/p>\n
While 35 is generally considered old by football standards, Buzzard stepped onto the field with just five minutes remaining in the Jaguars’ recent loss to College of the Redwoods. <\/p>\n
During the drive, the father of three set up linebacker Kyler Headley for a sack against the opposing quarterback before adding an extra shove to finish the play.<\/p>\n
“They’ve given me a shot and I’ve become part of the team, part of the family\u2026 my teammates and the coaches,” Buzzard said in an interview a few weeks ago after making the roster.<\/p>\n
Buzzard’s teammates have given him the nickname “O.G.”<\/p>\n
Although the game ended in a blowout loss, playing marked a dream long in the making for Buzzard. He played football in high school, but injuries forced him to give up the sport three decades ago in college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Buzzard proved it is never too late to make a comeback, taking the field to play defense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-449515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}